"We know that they thrive on it, yet we kept turning pucks over in the neutral zone,"Julien said.

"We have to be a little better in those areas. Obviously that last goal was certainly a hard one to swallow."

Burrows, who has nine playoff goals and five in his last five games, opened the scoring on a first-period power play.

Milan Lucic drew the Bruins even by firing Johnny Boychuck’s rebound under netminder Roberto Luongo and Mark Recchi’s tip gave Boston its first power-play goal of the series.

But the Canucks pressed in the third period, much like they did in the series opener, and Daniel Sedin fired a puck redirected by Burrows past Thomas who was out of position on the play.

When asked whether Thomas, who submarined Daniel Sedin outside his crease on an earlier play, should play closer to his net, Julien dismissed the thought.

“Well, I think at the stage we're at right now, if I ask him to change his style, I'm not sure that's real good advice,”the coach said.

The Bruins took some positives from a second period where they outshot Vancouver 14-10 and scored twice in two minutes 35 seconds to grab their first lead of the series.

“We had a chance to get that third goal,”said Bergeron, the Bruins’key face-off man.“It would have been huge but we didn’t do it.

“The guys are hurting no matter what. No matter how we lose, it always hurts. The second period was the way we need to play.”

Recchi said his teammates are disappointed but have shown resilience after surviving an 0-2 deficit at home against Montreal in the Eastern Conference quarter-final.

“Whether it’s 11 seconds in or 19 minutes in it’s still a loss and it sucks,”said Recchi, who scored his first goal in seven games.“It’s disappointing.

“We've got to try to get a couple of wins at home, get a win on Monday first then worry about Wednesday."

Lucic said the Bruins became more confident after his goal, the first against Luongo in 137 minutes 26 seconds of playoff action.

“It felt like we were able to play more confident after that goal and that second period felt like the way we need to play to win,”he said.

Linemate David Krejci agreed.

“We finally knew we can score on that guy,”he said.“It was a big one and right after we got some momentum, we were coming at them.

“It built confidence and momentum. You have to take only the positive things.”

Notes: The Canucks lost Game 2 in their only two other appearances in the Stanley Cup final, 1982 against the New York Islanders and 1994 against the New York Rangers ... Wednesday’s 1-0 win gave Canuck goalie Roberto Luongo his fifth career shutout against Boston, the most against any NHL club ... Luongo is one shutout behind the four of Kirk McLean in 1994, a club record for a single playoff year.